Exam 3: Ethical Behavior Philosophers’ Contributions

This approach presupposes that happiness, utility, pleasure, pain and anguish can be quantified:

Two weaknesses of the following approach are (1)it is difficult to determine who demonstrates integrity in the workplace, and (2)it is difficult to choose between compassion and not betraying somebody's trust:

This theory argues that equals should be treated equally in relationship to their relevant equalities and differences:

This theory argues that the best ethical alternative is the one that will produce the greatest amount of happiness to the largest number of stakeholders:

According to distributive justice theory, there are three main criteria for determining the just distribution:

If managers use moral imagination to determine ethical alternatives, the decisions need to be good for:

This theory focuses on the moral character of the decision maker:

This approach focuses on coming up with an innovative solution to an ethical dilemma:

A problem with this theory is that the categorical imperative does not provide clear guidelines for deciding what is right and wrong when two or more moral laws conflict and only one can be chosen:

Minority rights may be violated under this approach:

A difficulty in applying this approach is identifying all possible stakeholders impacted by the decision:

This theory is concerned with the motivation of the decision maker rather than the consequences of the decision:

This philosopher argued that social and economic inequalities are just if these inequalities are to everyone's benefit:

Ethical dilemmas arise when:

There are two aspect of justice, but under this aspect there should be a consistent application of law:

Under this approach what is important is that the decision was made for the right reasons:

Individuals may be ethical because of:

This approach, a variant of utilitarianism, considers an action to be ethically good if it will probably produce a greater balance of good over evil:

This philosopher argued that self-interest leads to economic cooperation:

This philosopher argued that self-interest motivates people to form peaceful civil societies: